MSI GS60 Stealth Pro Series Ghost Pro 3K-046;9S7-16H512-046 is a brand new 15.6-Inch very powerful gaming laptop with WQHD+3K display with 2880 x 1620 pixel resolution- like a Retina on a Macbook Pro, ultra thin chassis and dashing good looks, super NVIDIA GTX 970M graphics card for gaming beyond high definition, high end 4th generation Intel i7, massive amounts of memory and hard drive, great cooling to contain the heat of this superior gaming performance, crazy specs and features overall and yes definitely great value for money: Very solid gaming performance from a machine that weighs under 5 pounds, just 4.2 lbs indeed.

MSI GS60 Ghost Pro has the quad core Intel Core i7-4710HQ (6MB Cache) at 2.5GHz base speed that goes up to 3.5 GHz dynamically with turbo boost function and hyper threading with quad cores handling up to eight threads in parallel which means much better usage of the processor, 16GB DDR3L SDRAM at 1600 MHz (8GB x 2) for super multitasking, 1TB 7200rpm rotating speed Serial ATA hard drive as ample space for storage of all your multimedia files and games plus 128GB M.2 Solid-State Drive for the fastest hard drive configuration with the Super Raid going over read speeds of 1000MBps which offers 11 times more speed than a standard 7200rpm hard drive and Windows 8.1 64-Bit operating system. For this system (the whole package of i7-4710HQ, 128GB M2 SSD and 16GB RAM), even the super demanding programs or games will not be a problem and you will multitask efficiently with no dramas.

15.6-inch Intense WQHD+ 3K IPS display with 2880x1620 pixel screen resolution offers very impressive visuals- crisper and sharper pictures and vivid colors as well as extreme desktop gaming performance provided by the discrete next generation high end NVIDIA Geforce GTX970M with 3GB GDDR5 VRAM that was released in Fall of 2014 with great features like NVIDIA Physx for more realistic interactive and dynamic ambience gaming and antialiasing to make things look more life-like, NVIDIA Surround View to have the complete view of great gaming experience. Sound quality is also really good with the high definition 4.1 channel Dynaudio Premium Speakers that are sonically accurate and that deliver immersive home theater quality surround sound with also the help of subwoofer, and you have the Audio Boost to enhance the headset sound experience (gold plated headset with boosted audio jacks) for higher fidelity sound.

GTX 970M is up there with the best top of the range graphics cards, performs better than the GTX 880M and a little less than the GTX 980M. You can play even the most demanding games at FHD resolution and the highest settings, while using the anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing without problems. It also has the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600 that performs around 30 % faster than the standard HD 4000. Aluminium black MSI GS60 weighs 4.2 pounds with measurements of 15.35 x 0.78 x 10.47 inches- so it is super slim and lightweight for such a powerful gaming monster. It comes with the full colour LED backlit SteelSeries Gaming Keyboard that enables very accurate typing with its tactile keys and great gaming experience. It has no optical drive but up to 3 times faster WLAN Killer N1525 Combo (2 x 2 ac)- 802.11 A/C wireless,Bluetooth 4.0, 3 x USB 3.0 ports, 2 x Audio-out ports, 1x HDMI Port, 1x Mini DisplayPort, Killer Gaming Network 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet with RJ45 LAN Port, Killer DoubleShot combining Ethernet and WiFi adapters,1x Microphone-in and 1x Headphone-out.

Conclusion:MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K-046 is a very fast and powerful fantastic system with many attractive features and specs in a slim and lightweight package that looks amazing with a Macbook Retina like screen quality, amazing sound along with options to have a better multimedia and gaming experience, for video, sound and power management (choose between Green, Comfort and Sport for balance between temperature and performance), two fan thermal cooling to keep the machine at a steady cool temperature even when you’re playing the most demanding games for hours. You can also use it for your daily tasks at school or work and will handle anything you throw at it just fine- smoothly and without lags or freezing. The only con we can point out would be the trackpad, apparently it is not as impressive as the rest of this laptop and you can always connect a wireless mouse. If you care about design- looks, performance, user-friendliness, screen and sound quality, durability, portability, functionality, versatility, the MSI GS60 delivers it all and at quite a reasonable price for all it has on offer.

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